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Originally Posted by Dale
Any movement at all on transit ? In any case, it doesn’t appear to be a priority (or at least a disincentive) for the world of people and companies beating a path to Nashville.
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It doesn't appear to be the case. Dedicated bus lanes on this proposed new road are a drop in the bucket compared to what is needed.
The light rail subway plan that failed recently at the polls was a good plan but needed to be bigger. There needed to be an additional underground line between Vanderbilt and East Nashville, with an underground station roughly where Nissan Stadium stands today. Building all of that right now would be much, much less expensive than waiting until the area is partially built-out. Having a large materials staging area is critical for controlling the costs of underground construction (luckily, Broadway is a wide street and so could be kept partially open during construction of a subway station).
I'll add that a modern streetcar line in a protected median on the proposed new roadway would be a great addition to the plan and partially-underground system that is an inevitability.